Gemma Arterton

Gemma Christina Arterton ( born February 2, 1986 in Gravesend, Kent) is a British actress. Notoriety she gained as Bond girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace (2008) and for her roles in Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (both 2010).

Life and achievements

Her father, a welder and her mother a cleaning lady left, divorced when she was five years old. Immediately after birth, a finger, she was removed because she suffered from polydactyly and sechsfingrig came into the world on each hand. Likewise her a wrinkled ear was corrected. Arterton grew up with her ​​three -years-younger sister with her mother in a council estate in southern England Gravesend. Arterton describes her family as "large and dysfunctional ", but happy. After attending a grammar school near Gravesend she was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was the underclass girl among so many Oxbridge graduates. She received her degree there in 2007. Your Kentish typical nasal accent she has abtrainiert after a few years; already at drama school, as reported by Arterton, " I was told I should change it, it would hinder me. " That made 2010 when director Stephen Frears Tamara Drewe she sent to a voice coach for the film.

She made her stage debut as Rosaline in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe Theatre, London. Her film debut was in 2007 in the television film Capturing Mary. In the same year she appeared in her first film role in the British comedy The St. Trinian's.

The breakthrough came in 2008 Arterton as Bond girl Strawberry Fields in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace on the side of Daniel Craig. For the role she beat out 1500 applicants. Furthermore, she played the role of Elizabeth Bennet in the TV miniseries If Jane Austen knew (2008), based on the bestseller Pride and Prejudice.

In 2009, she was seen among others in The Boat That Rocked, and the sequel to The St. Trinian's. But for excitement she cared especially with its permissive role in the film The Vanishing - The Abduction of Alice Creed ( 2009). In 2010 she celebrated successes with the films Clash of the Titans alongside Sam Worthington and alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. She also played the Hilde WANGEL in Ibsen's play The Master Builder ( "The Master Builder " ) in a performance of London's Almeida Theatre.

2010 married Arterton the thirteen years her senior manager Stefano Catelli Italian Andalusian Zuheros. The divorce took place in 2013.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

• 2007: The St. Trinian's (St. Trinian's )
• 2008: 3 and out! ( Three and Out)
• 2008: Rock N Rolla ( RocknRolla )
• 2008: James Bond 007: Quantum of Solace (Quantum of Solace )
• 2009: Perfect ( short film )
• 2009: Radio Rock Revolution ( The Boat That Rocked )
• 2009: Without a Trace - The Abduction of Alice Creed ( The Disappearance of Alice Creed )
• 2009: The St. Trinian's 2 (St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton 's Gold )
• 2010: Clash of the Titans ( Clash of the Titans )
• 2010: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time )
• 2010: Tamara Drewe ( Tamara Drewe )
• 2010: Sammy's Adventures - The Search for the Secret Passage ( voice) ( Sammy's avonturen: De secret door input)
• 2011: Astonish Me (Short Film )
• 2012: It 's Getting Late ( short film )
• 2012: Byzantium
• 2012: Song for Marion
• 2013: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters ( Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters )
• 2013: Runner Runner

TV

• 2007: Capturing Mary (film )
• 2008: If Jane Austen knew ( Lost in Austen, four-part series, 2 episodes)
• 2008: Tess of the D' Urbervilles ( four-part series, 4 episodes)

Awards